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A critique of Galloway’s Protocol: ‘Interrogating the Algorithm pt II’

So, the following will not be for everyone.  It is in fact, at times, a bit shouty.  But some of this really got my goat.  The idea that technology is not value-neutral and that it manifests cultural assumptions and reflects and sometimes enforces existing power structures is an important one.  In light of our increasingly […]

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The Narrative Mind – Persuasion by telling tales

So I attended a campaign training session for The Greens recently – and we spent quite a bit of time talking about narrative theory and some interesting psych related aspects of campaigning.  Fascinating.  This book: ‘The Political Brain’ by Drew Westen was heavily referenced, and apparently is responsible for a major thrust of the Obama […]

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Building narrative through tech

So I’ve been thinking more and more about approaches to large scale campaigns to motivate and drive people.  How to create engagement.  And have been doing some reading.   Rather than go into great detail here though (Summer is just providing too many disctractions right now – plus job hunting) I thought I would post some […]

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